Current Sensing Techniques and Biasing Methods for Smart Power Drivers

✍ Scribed by Sri Navaneethakrishnan Easwaran (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 154
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a detailed description of fault tolerant design techniques for smart power drivers and their application in the design of automotive airbag ICs to ensure correct deployment. The book begins with an introduction to the nature of electrical loads in the car, then moves on to describe various current sensing circuits, featuring thermal simulations. It shows how simple design techniques can be applied to ensure appropriate functionality of the IC under any power up condition. It concludes by introducing diagnostic circuits and measurement results. This book is a useful reference for automotive IC designers and provides specifications and design guidelines not found in the current literature.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xix
Introduction (Sri Navaneethakrishnan Easwaran)....Pages 1-12
State-of-the-Art Current Sensing, Biasing Schemes and Voltage References (Sri Navaneethakrishnan Easwaran)....Pages 13-23
Current Sensing Principles with Biasing Scheme (Sri Navaneethakrishnan Easwaran)....Pages 25-41
High-Side Current Regulation and Energy Limitation (Sri Navaneethakrishnan Easwaran)....Pages 43-71
Low-Side Current Regulation and Energy Limitation (Sri Navaneethakrishnan Easwaran)....Pages 73-91
Biasing Schemes and Diagnostics Circuit (Sri Navaneethakrishnan Easwaran)....Pages 93-122
Conclusions and Future Work (Sri Navaneethakrishnan Easwaran)....Pages 123-125
Back Matter ....Pages 127-146

✦ Subjects

Circuits and Systems